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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
tal. There is a balm in it, soothing to the soul. The spirit is equal to the melody. To Mrs. Bancroft, December 15:— I was happy to hear from you by that pleasant note under your own hand. From time to, time, as I heard of your success, I have been tempted to say, I told you so, for I prophesied all that has occurred. To you who had so long known by conversation and books the men of England it must be most interesting to see them face to face, to listen to the gentle sallies of Rogers, and the marvellous flow of Macaulay. I hear very little from any of my London friends. Time is rolling its obscuring mists between us. This is natural. I was reminded of you several times when at Plymouth only three days ago, to lecture. I passed the night at Mr. Andrew Russell's, and in the evening saw your brother. Russells and Davises seemed to fill the place. My audience was most attentive; but my visit was very brief. I left the Court Ho use where I was engaged, at four o'clock
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
lligent, as well as by those who might not be expected to know better, thinking or feeling only as they are told to do. The demoralization was not confined to politics and the secular professions. George W. Blagden, Nehemiah Adams, and William M. Rogers, from Congregationalist (Trinitarian) pulpits, delivered sermons in favor of the Compromise and the Fugitive Slave law. Rev. Orville Dewey, at Pittsfield, defended the Compromise; but his position was exceptional among the Unitarians. Moof a madman. He declined to participate in any of the recent celebrations, Railroad Jubilee, Sept. 15, 1851. cherishing still a grudge because he was refused the use of Faneuil Hall. The mayor told me that Webster cut him dead, and also Alderman Rogers, when they met in the apartments of the President. The papers—two Hunkers—have hammered me for calling on the President. September 17, in Boston. on the occasion of the Railroad Jubilee. Sumner, as already seen, had strongly condemned
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
aster; listened in St. Peter's to the Miserere from the Doria gallery; was greatly interested in the bronze doors for our national Capitol, still in the studio of Rogers, to whom he suggested persons and events for commemoration; talked earnestly with Story and with Hamilton Wild of statuary and paintings; met other friends from Bton,—Edward N. Perkins, Turner Sargent, J. L. Motley, Miss Emma Weston, and Hawthorne, then writing his Marble Faun; passed many hours in studios,—those of Story, Rogers, Overbeck, Cranch, Lehman, Hosmer, Ives, and Page; made a melancholy visit to that of Crawford, which still held the artist's unfinished works; gathered a stock o art, and visited, when he was well enough to do so, the galleries and churches, and the studios of the artists. He was specially interested in the doors which Mr. Rogers was then making for the Capitol at Washington, and repeatedly visited his studio and talked with him about them; and he was also deeply interested that the sket